Tutor Spotlight: Chris Golightly

During the holidays, people are often more inclined to reflect on the aspects of their lives that they are thankful for. In my work life, I am thankful for a lot of things, and our wonderful volunteers are toward the top of that list. Chris Golightly is a long time...

Education Managers: Deepening Educational Impact

At School on Wheels, our goal is to improve the educational outcomes of students experiencing homelessness. That’s why this school year we’ve changed up our staffing model to allow our staff members to delve even further into the education needs of the 400+ students...

Tutor Spotlight: Chris Ross

A few words come to mind when thinking of our amazing volunteers… dependable, caring, committed, inspiring. These words and more describe our featured volunteer, Chris Ross. Chris has been a volunteer with School on Wheels for over 5 years. Within that time, he has...

Our Hopes for School on Wheels Kids

What is your hope for the kids we serve? It’s a simple question and it inspires us each day. Each School on Wheels staff member and board member brings different hopes to the organization and helps us stretch our vision so that what we do day in and day out has...

10 Groups that Made Back to School Great

Getting the kids we serve ready to go back to school takes a whole community! For the upcoming school year we have already provided over 100 backpacks full of school supplies and complete sets of uniforms (two shirts, two pairs of pants and a belt) to students in our...